ANNOUNCEMENTS

                     Worship Service for December 28, 2025

Service of Worship

Platt Springs United Methodist Church

West Columbia, SC

December 28, 2025 – 11 A.M.

1st Sunday after Christmas

Welcome and Announcements                                                     Marguerite Sterling

*Please stand as the light of Christ is brought forward                                                                

*Choral Introit      “Once in Royal David’s City”                                            Choir  

* Call to Worship                                                                        Marguerite Sterling

Beloved, we have waited, watched, and witnessed the coming of the Christ child. As we gather today on the other side of Christmas, we might be tempted to ask, “What now?”

We continue to wait and watch for the day that all the earth awaits.

In this season of Christmas, we remember that though Christ has come among us, the good news of freedom for captives, flourishing for the poor, and power returned to the disempowered does not reign in so many places.

We continue to wait and watch for the day that all the earth awaits.

With Mary and Joseph, we listen for God to show us how to protect and advocate for the vulnerable among us.

We continue to wait and watch for the day that all the earth awaits.

As we gather to worship today, may God bind us together in love, empowering us to live as followers of the Christ child who declare good news wherever we go.

We gather today as people who wait, watch, and work for the day that all the earth awaits. Thanks be to God! Amen.

*Hymn                         “What Child is This”                                              UMH # 219                                                                                            

Old Testament                   Isaiah 52: 7-10  (CEB)                                Lynnsey Hanks                      

Pastoral Prayer       (followed by the Lord’s Prayer)

Young Disciples                

* Affirmation of Faith                                                                               UMH #881

*Gloria Patri                          “Glory Be To the Father”                                       # 70                                                                  

Worshipping God with Our Tithes & Offering.

Offertory:                                “Room In My Heart”        

*Doxology                 “Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow”                   # 95                                    

Sermon                        “Peace with God, Peace of God”             Pastor Noble Miller                    

*Closing Hymn                        “Joy to the World”                                    UMH # 246                

*Benediction:   Family of Christ, go now into the world in the blessing and power of the Triune God to resist the misuse of power in our world, to point to the signs of good news all around us, and to work for the empowerment and flourishing of all people, especially the vulnerable among us. Amen

*Postlude (* We invite you to stand and participate when able)

Prayer List December 28, 2025

  Surgeries/Hospital/Sick

Rick and Deree Stobaugh

David Brantley

JC Hyatt

Buck and Peggy Jones

James and Elaine Ward

Brenda Ettari

Sharon Grecu

Brad and Barbara Jordan

Sue Rhodes

Flo Johnson

Anne Piercy

Delane Reynolds

Sylvia Allison

Mary Ann Neilson

Betty Rogers

Nursing Homes/Assisted Living/ Hospice/Rehab

Paul Mullins, Debbie Summers's uncle

Jessie Sargent

Retirement Communities

Lucy Eden

Helen Tarbox

Coretta Safriet

Shirley Ward

Family/Friends/Community

Ashley Steele

Vernon Cunningham, Sandy Cobia’s brother

Margie Horton, friend of Melody and Terry Clamp

Kay Pearson, friend of Jamie Guffey

Marsha Mathious, friend of Bernadette Weston

Addie Wilkerson-Pinner, friend of Laura Hooper

Bryce Schmoyer, friend of Vickie Hanks’

Raven Player, niece of Betty and Don Elliott

Tally Nesmith, friend of Betty Rogers

Trey Schmoyer, friend of Vickie Hanks

Audrey Barclay, Susan Basnett’s mother

Corrie Wofford, C.J. Baker’s step daughter-in-law

Kathy Mott, Marie Thompson’s sister

Wendy McDonough, friend of Jolene Flory

Genevieve Stroud, Wanda Young’s mother

Tiffany and Adam Hunter, friends of Susan and Ryan Bressler

Matt Anderson, friend of Laura Hooper

Norma Kestner Viars

Matthew, nephew of Ryan Alexander

Audrey Walsh, daughter of Cam Walsh

Maureen Ervin, Betty Rogers’ sister-in-law

Marilyn Persinger, Noble Miller’s sister

Roy Williams, Agnes Pittman’s son-in-law

Praise

Heyward Ann Marchant, great niece of Laura Hooper

Tommy Fowler, friend of Laura Hooper

Lauren Goodenough, friend of Laura Hooper

Jake Williams, friend of Laura Hooper  

Military

Parker Albrecht, Navy

Zach Timmons, Marine Reserve

Donovan O’Dea, Army

Spencer Miller, Air Force

Bailey Roberson, Army

Condolences

To the family of Clark Surratt

To the family of Parker Bobb

Too the family of Donnie Clamp, Curtis Clamp’s brother

To keep in contact with everyone on our prayer list we're going to clean the names that have been here for several weeks. If your name, or a loved one's name, has been listed here for three weeks, make sure to give Melody at (803)794-3415 a call so we'll keep them listed.